Posts by Richard Harris 43 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Oct 2007
I had my own domain, but my ntlworld.com email address pre-dated that. You missed the point. Changing ISP's or creating my own email addresses from a new domain has the same net effect. I lose my old email address and have to start again with a new one.
As someone who still clings to my ntlworld.com email address like the NRA would with a rifle, I think the value of a static email address is important. I could change to a gmail type address, but that defeats the point of having a long lasting, static email address.
What if the assumption that there is 1 universe is incorrect? What if ours is part of a pair, where what we perceive as time goes forward in ours and backwards in the other one? If blackholes become white holes when time is reversed, then anyone in the second Universe would also perceive black holes, but our Universe is spewing stuff into theirs and vice-versa in doing so, wouldn't that also transfer the information between Universes and the net of everything be a nice round zero?
The TV viewing model is extremely flawed and the sooner everyone realizes the better. At the moment, the model is like a Japanese restaurant, where the food is delivered on small conveyor belts. The only difference is, you have to pay for everything on the belt, no matter what you take from it. You can also pay again for an all you can eat buffet (Netflix), and then yet another all you can eat buffet (Amazon Prime) and so on...
You can only watch one thing at a time, so in the end, you are paying more and more for things you aren't going to watch. If you're watching a film on Sky Movies, you aren't watching the football on BT sport, but if you've subscribed, you're still paying for it. Going on holiday for two weeks is throwing away around £70 if you have all the packages with Virgin or Sky.
A fairer model would be for the delivery owners (Virgin/Sky/BT etc.) to charge per hour for the type of content you watch). Free to air would be included in the base costs. Movies etc. would be £1-£2 hour.
I doubt that would ever happen though.
I can just imagine the following. You download a free layout for your dashboard and the next time you start your car... Please watch this video from our sponsors... Then later... you have used all of your 5 free right turns. Please purchase more right turns for 69p... NEVER let the makers of Candy Crush near this hardware!
Wales isn't even a country (it's a Principality before anyone queries it), so why should it get any special treatment? I've lived there and it's mainly a depressing place. I hope they don't want the ID cards to be the size of credit cards, as there's only so much readable text you can fit in a small area (lets wait for the disability PC bunch to say that all text must be at least size 16 font for the visually impared). Also, if the wording it's going to truely represent the Welsh language, the card should be covered in phlegm!
Currently sitting back and waiting for my house to be fire bombed!
Somewhere, deep underground, a smug grin is spreading across the corpse of Mary Whitehouse.
Also, I can't believe that Gabby Logan had to appologise on Five Live for Frank Skinner saying "Bitch" on Sunday morning. She cited the new rules on swearing as the reason. Soon, all we'll be getting on the BBC, will be re-runs of Ballamory 24x7.
He probably felt he had to complain, there are votes at stake!
We're going to need a timetable for all these bandwagons that are coming along. FFS, these morons should stop getting offended on behalf of other people, and get a f***ing sense of humour!
Paris? She's been known to blow things, out of proportion.
Thanks Anonymous Coward. You must either be a manager who doesn't see people, but see's resources and enjoys royally shafting people right up the a$$, or a coward.
What's wrong with sticking up for yourself. There are no unions with any power or inclination to do it for you nowadays.
Also, it's not the first time these banks have pulled this trick, and there's always enough cash to pay the shareholders at the end of the year. Funny that.
I'm hearing of companies raising prices, while forcing suppliers to cut their prices plus cutting payment terms, all to raise the bottom line. When the dust has settled on this "credit crunch" (read taxpayer/customer rape and pillage), there will be a helluva lot of victims of this cash grab by the big multinationals.
As a contractor, if I was asked to cut my rates, there would be a short burst of expletives followed by me walking out of the door. If they then wanted me back, with my fairly specialist skills, they might find my rates have gone up!
Of course, there is the possibility that neither of these two "boffins" are correct. Scientists who treat theory like fact are no better than anyone who believes in a religion. It's not a fact if it's based on faith and flimsy rationalisation.
The last thing science needs is "My God's better than your God" type arguements.
Why is OK for the police to use laws for purposes they were never intened for, such as using terrorist laws to spy on dog owners and give teenages criminal records for having a fake ID so they can by a bottle of cheap cider. Yet it's wrong when companies use the DPA for purposes it was never intended for?
I don't agree with the misuse of the DPA, but laws are being misused all over the place
Paris, because if she used the DPA, there'd be nothing worth watching on the Web!
>> Well, DNA record is PART of the record, you doofus.
>>and if you meant "apart from the DNA", how is that going to help? you have a DNA match (this is already being proven to be a lot less useful as a unique match than the poilice say it is) how do you know what they were pulled over for?
How can you have no criminal record and have your DNA is on the database if it's all part of the same record, you double doofus :)
If you're looking for a name that matches your DNA evidence, then what fricken difference does it make what old records have been deleted. If you get 100 names that match the fragment, it's better than starting with nothing.
It's sad that the conduct of the police has ruined the trust of the public, to the point that they would rather it was harder to catch criminals using a valid toolset than risk being stiched up.
I agree that criminal records have a shelf life (some should never expire, but that's another story). I can't see any arguement for why DNA shouldn't be kept. It's not as if the police can go and get a sample from the computer and liberally sprinkle it around the scene of a crime.
If someone is pulled over for drink driving and it is subsequently found that this person is a mass rapist, then I'd call that a result. If a body is identified using the DNA database then that's also a result.
Does this arguement boil down to: Give us criminals a fair chance guv?
It'll be interesting when they analyse the UK information as you can buy a PS3 just about anywhere, and you can't get a wii for love nor money.
Nintendo have to be careful as people will get a PS3 instead of a wii if the artifical shortage, used to raise christmas figures (and bonuses) is continued much longer. I was told last weekend in Currys that head office were throttling back stock to increase demand over the christmas period - B@st@rds!!!
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